Stan Sieler ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
 
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: As did HP, as shown by examing the corporate goals now vs. at the start,
: and in the often commented-on demise of the "HP way".  (In 9/1983 "Hewlett-
: Packard Statement of Corporate Objectives", Profit moved to #1,
: Customers dropped from #1 to #2.)
 
For as long as I've been with HP (and that goes back to 1969), Profit has
been the #1 Corporate Objective, for (from memory) it is through Profit
that we (HP) realize all our other Objectives.
 
-Larry "what! me a historian?" Byler-